Manifesto for Another World (Open Media Series) [Paperback]

Ariel Dorfman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Open Media Series | Publication Date: October 7, 2003

In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman; and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Arias Sánchez, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, José Ramos-Horta, and Bobby Muller. Equally moving are the stories of more than thirty others, unknown and (as yet) unsung beyond their national boundaries: Kailash Satyarthi, who has spent a lifetime working to free tens of thousands of victims of child labor in his native India, and Juliana Dogbadzi, who was sold into sexual slavery by her parents at age twelve, escaped after seventeen degrading years, and now is devoted to the liberation of African girls bound in the same terror. From their ranging voices Dorfman culls the message: freedom from persecution, and freedom of opportunity, for all. Manifesto for Another World is both a political testament and a work of art.

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About the Author

Born in Buenos Aires in 1942, ARIEL DORFMAN is a Chilean citizen. A supporter of Salvador Allende, he was forced into exile and has lived in the United States for many years. His works include Death and the Maiden, which has been produced in over one hundred countries and made into a film by Roman Polanski, as well as numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction. Dorfman has won many international awards, including the Sudamericana Award, the Laurence Olivier and two from the Kennedy Center. He is distinguished professor at Duke University and lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press; First edition. edition (October 7, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583225633
• ISBN-13: 978-1583225639
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.2 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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